Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane is venturing into live-action comedy.

McFarlane has teamed with writer-producer Ricky Blitt, a Family Guy alumnus, to resurrect Blitt's 2002 comedy pilot Becoming Glen. The reworked project has become a hot item, with CBS, NBC, and Fox vying for it.

The latter network actually ordered a pilot for Becoming Glen, starring Johnny Galecki (Roseanne), during the 2001-02 development season, but it did not make the cut.

However, it gained an instant cult status and attracted the attention of McFarlane, who subsequently came on board to executive-produce a new version with Blitt.

Becoming Glen centers on a successful forty-something man who looks back at 1994, when he was a 32-year-old slacker living with his parents and spending all his time lying on the couch watching TV.

"It's a screwed-up Wonder Years from the perspective of (a forty-something) going back to the magical summer when he turned 32 and became a man," said Blitt.